Learning from my mistakes: an English teacher's blog

I find how people approach feedback really interesting. I have known one school to release one marked exam question at a time when feeding b...

Watching the national updates of our current crisis, I cannot help but think of what is being foregrounded and what is being placed in th...

Recently, there’s been a lot of discussion of vocabulary on Twitter and blogs and helping students to develop with the GCSEs. Some of it...

One PowerPoint slide to rule them all, One PowerPoint slide to find them; One PowerPoint slide to bring them all and in the darknes...

Like most people, I am planning my contingency plan for when the UK leaves the EU. I am thinking of how it will affect the classroom. You ...

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a crystal ball? Wouldn’t it be nice to see whether the education system improves or not? Wouldn’t it be ni...

I have been working on exploring the presentation of a character in 'The Merchant of Venice' and 'Othello' with a group and ...

Out of all the different texts studied in the English classroom, drama, I feel, is always the one that is undervalued. I have poetry comin...